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Romney's Hit Piece on START: 'Thoroughly Ignorant'

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines7/07/2010 1:35:17 pm PDT

re: #148 lostlakehiker

The only way we’ll ever know that is the hard way. Same for ours. But odds are a good fraction of ours don’t work, and odds are a higher fraction of theirs don’t.

We don’t know how many of ours, or theirs, are bad. Let’s not find out.

Romney’s worst factual error is where he talks about how many ICBM’s Russia can mount on bombers. Nobody has yet been able to launch an ICBM from a bomber. A rocket that can carry a bomb halfway around the earth is heavy, and at the same time delicate. Not easy to put in, or under, a bomber.

Let’s not play word games. Ballistic missiles, including a Minuteman ICBM, have been launched from aircraft. The Minuteman was launched from a transport, a C-5A, but I think it’s fair to say that any aircraft becomes a bomber when you start releasing nuclear weapons from it.